Yves Citton
Arts & Culture
Why Paul Emilieu Marchesseau recommends Yves Citton
“A professor at Université Paris 8, Yves Citton thinks of attention as an ecology: a scarce resource, captured by the media, that we must cultivate together as a shared environment.”
Professor of literature and media studies at Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, Yves Citton works on what we do with our attention in the digital age. Born in Geneva in 1962, he taught in the United States and then in Grenoble before joining Paris 8. His book Pour une écologie de l'attention (Seuil, 2014) shifted the debate: rather than only denouncing an economy that captures and resells our gaze, he proposes to think of attention as a collective environment, to be cultivated like an eco
- Place
- Paris, France
- Recommended by
- Paul Emilieu Marchesseau
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- Arts & Culture · Antikythera · Education & Work
